The House has approved a $74.4 billion budget for the coming fiscal year, setting up negotiations with the Senate.

The bipartisan, 99-17 House vote was an anomaly after a history of fighting about how to cut budgets in a down economic climate. Days after staking out a partywide position against the spending plan — a position that was later lifted — 25 Democrats broke with their party leadership to support the measure.

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